Who can resist warm monkey bread coated in cinnamon sugar? We improved on the comfort food by swapping store-bought biscuit dough for a homemade brioche dough (it's not as hard as it sounds!). The result: an entire cake of pillowy pull-apart bites enough to feed a crowd, perfect for entertaining …

Dear Diary:<p>It was Bastille Day, a Friday, on the Upper East Side. I was working but had stopped to get an iced coffee at a cafe on Madison Avenue between 83rd and 84th Streets.<p>As I locked up my bike, I saw my friend Richard. I knew him from Front Runners New York, the running club for lesbian, gay, …

Conversations about bread making often turn to talk of starters and wait times and scrambled schedules—the laborious signifiers of a life in debt to sourdough. Homemade bread is notably special, particularly tasty. There is a reason people commit to the woes and wins of making bread in their own …